What is in your shampoo?

Most people use shampoo at least a few times a week. But do you know what's actually in it? A list of shampoo ingredients from the website Good may give you something to think about when choosing your next one:

• Surfactants Surfactants are necessary for the lathering, cleaning, and degreasing effects of a shampoo. Conventional surfactants such as sodium lauryl or laureth sulfate, ammonium laureth sulfate, cocamide DEA, and ammonium xylene sulfonate have the potential for harshness, stripping away fatty acids.
  Natural surfactants such as decyl glucoside, sucrose cocoate, sodium methyl cocoyl taurate, and sodium lauroamphoacetate may not foam like a conventional product, but your hair will still be just as clean.
  
• Preservatives The main function of preservatives is to ensure a long shelf life. None are truly benign. Conventional preservative such as iodopropynyl butylcarbamate, methylisothiazolinone, methylchloroisothiazonlinone, and parabens tend to be stronger, with more allergenic and irritant potential.
  Natural preservatives such as potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate, and alcohol are milder.
  
• Color In basic shampoos, color is added for decorative purposes only. Conventional colorants are often added, but are not necessary for a shampoo to function at all. Most natural brands do not even use colorants at all!
  

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  Good July 6, 2010

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ardyss body garment after laparoscopy and also the adhesives to my foot pads

I was able to wear the Ardyss Body Magic again 7 days after my laparoscopic surgery. My abdominal stitches are still in with the 3 incisions that I have, but the pain now only feels like mild to moderate menstrual cramps (men you won't understand -- women, they totally will understand). I don't really have any limitations anymore, except no sex. bleh.

So now I can fit the Ardyss Body Magic on, and fasten it to the 2nd or 3rd hooks. Hopefully in another few days I will be back to fastening it to the 3rd hooks all the way up, as I was before the surgery.

Another thing I want to talk about is my foot pads. They are not like kinoki foot pads because mine actually work! Kinoki's detox foot pads have over 50% cornstarch in them, used as a filler, so if you have a 5 gram pad, 2.5 grams is nothing helpful at all in detoxing your body. Purify Your Body's detox foot pads have 100% of the 5 grams of actual ingredients -- no fillers at all. I even list out the foot pad ingredients by percentages, so you know that it all adds up to 100%.

But here is another complaint I have, albeit mild... Sometimes my customers tell me that the adhesives to put on the foot pads to your feet, don't stick well enough. So I told the factory that, and to help, they made some super strength adhesives. Now, I have customers telling me that they don't come off!!! I have experienced that as well. I have been using them because of my surgery (get the drug residue out of my body please!) and I cannot seem to scrape the adhesive off my feet. I know I have told my customers that if they experience this, to just put lotion on their feet about 15 minutes before they put the foot pads on at night. Then the adhesives peel off very easily. But I don't listen to my own advice and now I spent about 15 minutes this morning scraping the bottoms of my feet- YUCK!!

And last of all, I made a homemade vegetable soup -- mostly with veggies from my garden. It was delicious. And nutritious! I am becoming a country girl!

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MRIs and Migraines - my blog post

This morning I was lucky enough to get an MRI, yay!! I have been going through some shoulder pain --INTENSIVE shoulder pain on both shoulders. I have been doing physical therapy for more than 6 months, and had cortisone shots as well. My right shoulder responded very well to the cortisone shot. The left shoulder, not so much. As a result, I now have shoulder surgery scheduled for the right shoulder, in early September.

As I was in the MRI machine today, I recalled my first MRI, in Hayward, CA about 12 years ago. That morning, I woke up with a very severe migraine -- the works: the aura, the throbbing stabbing pain in my head, the nausea, and the light sensitivity. The last thing I wanted to do was stick my body in a machine making that loud pounding noise!

But, as I recall clearly, I pulled up my big girl panties and went through with it!

About 25 minutes later I came out of the machine. My migraine was gone.

HOLY COW!

That was amazing! I knew from experience that was going to be a 3-day migraine.

I had heard about magnets being good pain relievers. I didn't know if I believed that. But now I do.

And as for my migraines, after using my detox foot pads on my toes, my migraines have completely gone away. I had suffered from them for 15 years, and now a simple detoxing of my brain (all the neurotoxins that I put in: MSG, aspartame, etc) and they are gone! I was so excited.

Now, my shoulder pain will go away after the surgery, and I will be a new woman!!

YAY!!

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